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I'm not well versed in BTC, so my prices may be wrong. But this is webscale in a way I haven't thought of before. It is alleged they stole 119754 BTC, which in
by throwaway9191aa 5y ago
I'm not well versed in BTC, so my prices may be wrong. But this is webscale in a way I haven't thought of before.
It is alleged they stole 119754 BTC, which in 2016 was < $1000USD. Which would have been < $100,000,000. Today, it is worth 5bln. (not that 100mm is nothing.... but it is a lot less).
Could you imagine stealing something that most people thought was a toy. Suddenly
it became so valuable that the government could justify who-knows-how-much resources to catch you?